Yes. i meant to say that Ernest and his second wife (the one with parents in Arkansas) were the bad eggs and Hadley, the first wife, was the good one. Everything I have read about Hadley points to her being just a really nice human, always choosing to see the good in everybody.
When about halfway through
The Paris Wife, I found the webpage for the museum in Piggot and read through the timeline posted. The book included many, if not all, of those events, i.e. when Hadley lost a valise containing all of Ernest's work up to that point.
I plan to re-read
A Moveable Feast, Hemingway's autobiography about his years in Paris.....and also, visit the AR museum. The book was checked out yesterday at our public library. While I don't want to spend the next year of my life reading about Hemingway, it's like a bad trainwreck that is drawing me in...
Yes, 63,000 acres of farmland. When telling a friend about that a week or so ago,
he did not believe me. My friend thought he had a big farm (and he does by Arkansas individual owner standards) until hearing that.
Ernest bequeathed royalties for
A Sun Also Rises to his first wife. I read that came to about $30,000/year.